I want to turn our attention now to Brexit and the new government being formed by the new Prime Minister, Teresa May. Rob Hutton, UK government reporter for Bloomberg in London, has more tell us Rob about David Davis. He is going to be the minister in charge of negotiating the exit of Britain from the European Union. Yes, he is.
This is terribly exciting. It's stickually exciting because David Davis is one of those people who went campaigning for Brexit, had a very clever plan, and now he gets to implement his very clever plan. And working alongside him, really doing trade negotiations will be Liam Fox, who also has a very clever plan, not quite the same, very clever plan,
and working alongside both of them. The surprise appointment of the evening will be Boris Johnson, the new Foreign Secretary, who has three or four very clever plans for what Brexit will look like. Well, I think I'm so like you mentioned whereas Johnson, because I think a lot of us, you know, we're not the UK experts like you, but we saw you know, Uh, he's appointed Foreign Secretary. How is he going to how is he going to assist the new brexits are tell us how this new clever
plan is going to work. Well, it's not exactly clear. One way of looking at this is that Boris Johnson has finally been given the opportunity to blow up. He's been given a really big job that he cannot possibly complain about, one of the biggest jobs in government theoretically, and also a job where unfortunately, the many, many rude things that he has said we're currently debating which of these we can print on our family news wire that he has said about about foreign leaders will may come
back to haunt him. So Theresa may may have done something quite clever in taking somebody who's a potential rival and giving them the opportunity to mess up in a way that actually wouldn't damage her domestically. Um, He's going to be absolutely fascinating to see how how Davis and Fox. Both of them have been out of government quite a long time. David Davis hasn't been in government since, uh it since as one of my colleagues, but it's since
take that were big first time around. So it's going to be fascinating to see how they cope with the biggest problem that Britain's faces. But the point about about appointing them, from May's point of view, I think is that these were people who are pushing for Brexit, so their hands are now going to be dipped in the blood. They've said it will be terribly easy to get a deal. They've said we'll be able to get free trade access to the EU. They've said we'll get a trade deal
with America, with South Korea, with whoever. Now we'll find out if they're right, and if they're wrong, they won't easily be able to blame her for screwing it up. Just quickly, rob David Davis, is there one particular piece
of information that we should know about him? Because he is What you need to know about David Davis is that he once resigned from Parliament to run for Parliament against himself in protests that something that this is when he was in opposition in protest that something that the government was doing. He's a very interesting choice. Robert Hutton, thank you so very much. I can hear it in your voice, the glee you take it. It is amazing. Though.
This is such an exciting story, so interesting. Boris Boris Johnson, Foreign Secretary announced by Teresa May, the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. I'm Kathleen Hayes along with Pim Fox. This is taking stock on Bloomberg Radio. This is Bloomberg